Cold W. wind + showers in afternoon Clear at night + moonlight. Saw town cases walking + cycled to Ashybank to see Mary Chisholm.1 Then I walked to Whitmuir to find to my annoyance that D.2 has signed Ad. Neil3 off on Saturday. Views from Gala Rigg very fine. Was very pleased to get from A Christy Wilson, Doncaster, a card announcing his golden wedding4 + a piece of cake. Wrote Helen.5 Took down some strawberries to Mrs Mack6 + saw Erskine.7
1 Mary Chisholm may refer to Mary Chisholm born Saskatchewan, Canada, recorded with her uncle and aunt James Hill and Helen Hill née Chisholm at Raeburn Place in the 1921 Census but at Ashybank in the 1911 Census. Mary appears to be the daughter of Robert Chisholm, farm servant, and Helen Chisholm née Paxton.
2 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
3 Adam Grey Neil (1890-1976), forester and joiner, born Bowden, Roxburghshire.
4 Alexander Christy Wilson (1846-1925), L.R.C.S., M.D., medical practitioner, was one of Dr Muir’s few contemporary friends still working. Wilson had married, 20 August 1873, Emma Bewley (1849–1928) in a Quaker Marriage at Monkstown, Dublin, Ireland [Bewley, Emma and Wilson, Alexander Christy, 1873 Dublin South, Volume 12 Page number 571]. A Licenciate of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh in 1866 so a close contemporary of Dr Muir’s at medical school. The son of Walter Wilson (1796–1890) and Rebecca Cruickshank Wilson (1818–1896), born 1846 at Cavers, Roxburghshire, he died 27 April 1925 at Doncaster, South Yorkshire (where he was in practice from at least 1875 and was still being recorded in the Medical Register in 1923) and was buried at Hyde Park Cemetery, Doncaster.
5 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper, apparently still on holiday in the south of England.
6 Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946), of Elm Park, Selkirk.
7 James ‘Erskine’ Harper (1887-1953), Agnes Mackintosh’s son.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
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